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Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia

Published:2015-03-20 Issue:6228 Volume:347 Page:1352-1355
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Villmoare Brian¹²³,Kimbel William H.⁴,Seyoum Chalachew⁴⁵,Campisano Christopher J.⁴,DiMaggio Erin N.⁶,Rowan John⁴,Braun David R.²,Arrowsmith J Ramón⁷,Reed Kaye E.⁴

Affiliation:

1. Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA.

2. Center for the Advanced Study of Hominin Paleobiology, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.

3. Department of Anthropology, University College London, London WC1H 0BW, UK.

4. Institute of Human Origins and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.

5. Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

6. Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

7. School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA.

Abstract

Finding Homo nearly 3 million years ago The fossil record of humans is notoriously patchy and incomplete. Even so, skeletal remains and artifacts unearthed in Africa in recent decades have done much to illuminate human evolution. But what is the origin of the genus Homo ? Villmoare et al. found a fossil mandible and teeth from the Afar region in Ethiopia. The find extends the record of recognizable Homo by at least half a million years, to almost 2.8 million years ago. The morphological traits of the fossil align more closely with Homo than with any other hominid genus. DiMaggio et al. confirm the ancient date of the site and suggest that these early humans lived in a setting that was more open and arid than previously thought. Science , this issue p. 1352 , p. 1355

Funder

National Science Foundation

NSF

Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University

George Washington University Selective Excellence Program

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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